Weed-cutter attachment for hand-cars.



APPLLCATIQN FILED JULY 22, 1915.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

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WEBB-CUTTER ATTACHMENT FOR HAND-CARS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. i6, 1915.

Application filed July 22, 1915. Serial No. 41,385.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, SAMUEL S. BUTTON and JAMES A. MCTAGGART, citizensof the United States, residents of Hanston, in the county of Hodgemanand State of Kansas, have made a certain new and useful Invention infeed-Cutter Attachments for Hand- Cars; and we declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it apnertains to make and use theinvention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and toletters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

Figure l is a side view of the invention as applied, parts being shownas raised, in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of thecarrier, the Scythe blades and adjacent parts. Fig. 3 is a detail sideview of the spring joint in the connecting rod partly in section.

The invention has relation to a weed cutter attachment for hand cars,and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, ashereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the numeral 2designates the hand car, designed to be motor driven and having locatedin rear thereof substantially horizontal, rearwardly diverging scytheblades or knives 3, 3, said blades being made of Crucible steel andextending laterally outward at each side of one rail of the railroadtrack, close to the ties, each blade having an upward bend Ll at itsinner end, where it is bolted at 5 to the grooved carrier G, littingover the rail. This carrier 6 is bolted at 7 to the outer rear end of asupporting rod 8, said rod being at its inner end pivoted at 9 to thebracket l0 of the hand car. The pivot pin 9 is preferably made of wood.An adjusting lever ll is pivoted to the car at l2, and has a connectingrod 1B with the arm 8, said rod being at its inner end pivoted to thelever at ll and at its outer end loosely engaging a headed pin l5 ofsaid arm. This lever enables the carrier and blades to be adjustedvertically, to avoid switches and other obstructions.

rlhe connecting rod is preferably made in two parte, its outer part 18being smaller 1n cross section and litting within a seat 17 of the innersection, a coiled. spring 18 surrounding the outer section and bearingat its outer end against a cross pin 19 of said section, and at itsinner end bearing against the inner section, a cross pin 2O of the outersection having movement in a slot 2l. of the inner section, whereby theconnecting rod is made yieldable, to take up vibration, and yet, as thepin 2O normally rests against the lower end wall of the slot 2l,adjustment of the device is readily accomplished.

The grooved carrier is designed to rest upon the rail, to which it isheld down by the spring 18, the lateral flanges of said carrier servingto prevent sidewise movement of the carrier and the spring allowing thecarrier to yield upwardly in passing over any obstructions.

In order to avoid contact of the scythe blades with obstructions, or tohold said blades at the proper distance above the surface of the ties,each blade is provided with a rearwardly projecting rod 22, bentdownward slightly below the Scythe blade and designed to ride over anyobstruction and raise said blades above the same.

lVe claim:

l. A weed cutter attachment for hand cars, comprising a carrier havingengagement with the railway rail and provided with a lateral flange, alaterally extending scythe blade having at its inner end connection withsaid flange, a supporting rod having at its lower end connection withthe top of said carrier and at its upper end a horizontal pivotalconnection with the hand car, a rearwardly extending rod carried by saidblade and adapted to raise the same over obstructions, and means foradjusting the carrier and blade vertically.

2. A weed cutter attachment for hand cars, comprising a carrier havingengagement with the railwayrail and provided with a lateral flange, alaterally extending scythe blade having at its inner end connection withsaid flange, a supporting rod having at its lower end connection withthe top of said carrier and at its upper end a horizontal pivotalconnection with the hand car, In testimony whereof we afix our signaarearwardly extending rod carried by said tures, in presence of twowitnesses. blade and adapted to raise the same over SAMUEL S. BUTTON.obstructions, and means for ad listin@ the carrier and blade vertically,ncllJldingba rod JAMES A' MCTAGGART' the lower end` of which is providedwith a Vitnesses: spring-pressed section connected wth'the f J. W.PRESTON,V Y lower endof s'adsupporting rod. PAUL A. PORTER.

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